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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: CIDR FAQ
> Will things get so tough that I will have to ask my customers > to renumber because I need to switch from a clutter of small spaces > (as built in slow start and and with allocations not larger then /16) > into a larger single prefix space? - even when I started out with > provider aggregatable space, and tell customers that address space > cannot be moved to another provider and I'm warning them that using their > old numbers we cannot guarantee "full" connectivety. Yes > > - if large scale renumbering needs to happen, the problem seems to be analog > to memory allocation systems (on the fly); I faintly remember that > this could mean another factor of ineffeciency for the use of space. > How much will this reduce the expected life time of the IPv4 space? > (well, of course, under exponential growth it will be not very much) Already proposed this model for managment of the IPv4 space. > > BTW we would need to recognize the need for large scale renumbering a couple > of years ahead - else we will not have the tools to do it, not to think > about the need to educate network and systems administrators... Yup. See the latest draft from the IAB and ftp.isi.edu:/pub/bill/renumbering --bill
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